A "Game of Thrones" Castle Is Throwing a Winterfell Festival

You're running out of chances to be an extra on Game of Thrones, but now one of the hit HBO show's sets is offering fans an (off-camera) opportunity to travel to Winterfell.

Castle Ward, the 18th-century estate that stands in for the Stark family's home on GoT, will host a "Winterfell Festival" next month. According to the National Trust, the Northern Ireland conservation society that owns Castle Ward, the day-long celebration will give fans the chance to "discover the setting of the Stark family home, see first-hand theatrical re-enactments from the fantasy TV series, meet an actor from the show, watch spectacular games unfold in a mystical landscape and enjoy lively music, local food and much more." Activities will include The King's Tournament Games—a series of jousting, sword sparring, and archery competitions—tours of the castle, interactive shadow puppet shows, and performances drawn from the first book in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series that inspired the show.

Castle Ward served as a backdrop for Winterfell through much of Game of Thrones' first season.

Courtesy National Trust

Boyd Rankin, an armorer for the show who played Mikken the blacksmith in Season One of GoT, will be on hand, as will two of the Stark children's direwolves. Festival attendees will feast on roast hog, venison pie, and locally made cider. The festival will begin at 11 a.m. on September 24, and tickets, which are already available for purchase, cost about $29 for adults, $13 for children, and $78 for a family of four. Children under the age of 10 get in free.

Throughout the show's seven seasons, Northern Ireland, where most Westeros-set scenes are filmed, has capitalized on the GoT frenzy by offering countless tours based on the series and reportedly raking in tens of millions of pounds sterling in the process. Countries like Spain, Croatia and Iceland have also seen a spike in tourism since becoming home to King's Landing and the land beyond The Wall, respectively. And even places as far away from the GoT set as the U.S. have taken advantage of the hype: Earlier this summer, a restaurateur and brewery teamed up to open the "Game of Thrones PUB" in Washington, D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood. So if you're not able to snag a plane ticket to Northern Ireland in time for next month's Winterfell Festival, don't worry — you can celebrate your love of Game of Thrones practically anywhere else in the world.